I’m almost ready for a beta release of PoolPlayer. I need to get a better name for it, I know. Right now I’m working on letting the user (or the app) delete a week from the database regardless of whether there are any games associated with that week. It’s not as easy as it sounds. But I should be done soon. Woot!
Posts in the category “Programming”
Football App
PoolPlayer is the current name of the app I’m writing to manage office football pools. The program is very versatile and can be used to manage any kind of pool: NFL, NCAA, NBA, MLB, whatever. This post is mainly just so I can check that the categories are working correctly.
Templates
I have to keep searching for them, so to make it easier on myself: the MovableType default templates are here.
Beginning
This is going to be a blog for information related to my many projects. Mostly I will probably write about programs I am writing and web development work I am doing, and I imagine this will mainly be a personal blog. I doubt many people will be interested in learning about listview columnheaders or SQL
PoolPlayers
Take a look at some screen shots from my soon-to-be-released pool manager.
Visual Basic Code to Send Outlook eMail
Yeah. So. Gotta little bug here. Can anyone tell me how to force Outlook to send a message formatted as plain text instead of in the user’s default format in VB? The only information I can find is about the OlEditorType, but that is apparently read-only unless I force the mail object to have HTMLBody
True DBGrid Pro
The brilliant minds at True DBGrid Pro answer the age-old question, “How do you sum the values of an unbound column?”
Visual Basic and Crystal Reports
For two days now I’ve been trying to get a report to run from my Visual Basic application. The report calls a stored procedure on the SQL Server from a Crystal Reports ocx in the app. I needed to pass two simple parameters through the ocx, from the app, to the storedproc so the report
Experts Exchange
Experts Exchange is an incredibly useful resource for computer professionals. Tell ’em GatorDavid referred you.
Batch Files
Can anyone ever possibly have enough Batch Files? I didn’t think so.